Gavin Beckford

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In 2016, photographers and curators used images to tell more than a few worthy stories.<p>Another year over, a new one about to begin. What better time to remember the visual stories from 2016 that reminded us humanity is a beautiful, complicated mess?<p>From a ballet program in Kenya to the real-life …

• Adoption rates of cloud computing are expected to surge to 86% over the next six to 10 years for streamlining supply chains.<br>• Driverless vehicles & drones (50%) and 3D printing (48%) have the highest predicted adoption rates over the next ten years.<br>• Robotics & Automation and driverless vehicles & …

Amazon has held talks with Frankfurt-Hahn Airport, a money-losing airport that is for sale, according to the German-language daily Sueddeutsche Zeitung, which was picked up by logistics-industry website Lloyd's Loading List.<p>The report did not say what the discussions were about or how recently they …

Supply chain management is a field where Big Data and analytics have obvious applications. Until recently, however, businesses have been less quick to implement big data analytics in supply chain management than in other areas of operation such as marketing or manufacturing.<p>Of course supply chains …

A modern day, customer-centric, demand-driven supply chain is faster and more responsive to changes in customer demand than traditional ones. Learn more about KPMG’s approach to supply chain transformation.

I had a conversation with a supply chain executive at a company with an incredibly complex and dynamic supply chain. This logistics services company manages hundreds of millions of supply chain assets for its clients, has hundreds of thousands drop off and pick up points, and make over 10,000 …

“3D printing has been around since the 1980s, but today there’s really an explosion going on,” says Alan Amling, Vice President of Marketing at United Parcel Services (UPS) Global Logistics & Distribution. “Every week you see something new about it in the press.”<p>Amling was addressing this year’s …

This story originally appeared on Reuters<p>Discount retailer Target Corp. is cracking down on suppliers as part of a multi-billion dollar overhaul to speed up its supply chain and better compete with rivals including Wal-Mart Stores Inc. and Amazon.com Inc .<p>The sixth-largest U.S. retailer by sales …

<b>Oozing cheese toasties, fiery hot kitchens and impressive baking displays - see the winners of this year's Pink Lady Food Photographer of the Year competition.</b><p>With plumes of flour jumping high into the air, this image of a baker kneading dough has, says food critic and chairman of the judges Jay …

At Day 1 of Facebook’s F8 developer conference, Mark Zuckerberg laid out the company’s 10 year roadmap and made tons of new announcements such as the new chatbots and a crazy new VR camera.<p>On Day 2, the keynote speakers dove into updates from the React Native platform, demoed a VR selfie stick, …